Author Spotlight Welcomes Rebecca Taylor

Ascendant by Rebecca Taylor is in the COMING SOON in June, department, so I thought I'd chat her book up some. And if you get a chance, check out her website. I found her blog light on content, but great on introspection. Specifically, she discusses criticism and putting a fence around your writing life, which is something authors need to do frequently. Writing is time consuming and the Internet is, eh, a distraction at best.

Rebecca lives in Denver Colorado with her husband and two children. When she's not reading, writing, or procrastinating on the Internet, she works as a school psychologist. She happens to love all things mystical and metaphysical and exercises her own latent powers everyday in hopes that she will, one day, be able to overcome her personal archenemy--

Reece's Peanut Butter Cups (Oh, I can so identify!)
 

Unfortunately, she's never yet won a battle of wills against these subversive, calorie laden, discs of EVIL.

*she sighs and wipes the tiniest bit of chocolaty evidence from the corner of her mouth*

Furthermore, this personal weakness has been used against her, repeatedly, by her wily children working, in tandem no less, to get their way. Admittedly, Halloween is a very bad time of year for Rebecca. 

As for writing, Ascendant (Crescent Moon Press, June 2013) is her first YA novel. She is represented by Emma Patterson with Brandt and Hochman Literary.

You can visit her blog at RebeccaTaylorBooks.blogspot.com or follow her on Twitter @RTaylorBooks.

Blurb:


When I was twelve, my mother disappeared. I was the first person to never find her.

I’m sixteen now and she has never been found, alive or dead. I’m not the girl I should have been.

When Charlotte Stevens, bright but failing, is sent to stay at her mother’s childhood home in Somerset England her life is changed forever. While exploring the lavish family manor, Gaersum Aern, Charlotte discovers a stone puzzle box that contains a pentagram necklace and a note from her mother—clues to her family’s strange past and her mother’s disappearance. Charlotte must try to solve the puzzle box, decipher her mother’s old journals, and figure out who is working to derail her efforts—and why. The family manor contains many secrets and hidden histories, keys to the elegant mystery Charlotte called mom and hopefully, a trail to finding her.
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I have grown to love YA material. Most of the time it is sweet and innocent, an aspect sorely missing in our culture today, but one I find refreshing. That first bloom of love, the ability to look at life with an open heart is sorely needed if only to bring hope and sanity back into our jaded world. Those are my thoughts on the matter.

Happy Reading!  

(((hugs)))

Louann

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